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The American Climate Corps will get people into green jobs. Can it help their mental health too?
Most young people aren’t sure how to take action. Biden’s program could provide much-needed structure.
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How ‘kitty cats’ are wrecking the home insurance industry
Supercharged thunderstorms and tornadoes are ravaging the Midwest, driving insurance costs to record highs.
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Inside a California oil town’s divisive plan to survive the energy transition
Kern County is betting on carbon capture to replace oil jobs and tax revenue. But will the county’s new economy repeat the sins of the old one?
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Tribes could lease their water to dry states. Why is it so hard?
The Colorado River Indian Tribes can now lease water to non-Indigenous users along the drought-stricken river. Most nations can’t do the same.
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How climate change is making us sick
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The Cochise County Groundwater Wars
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To get off fossil fuels, America is going to need a lot more electricians
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The Roadless Rule is supposed to protect our wild places. What went wrong in the Tongass National Forest?
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How a Koch-owned chemical plant in Texas gamed the Clean Air Act
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A trillion cicadas will emerge in the next few weeks. This hasn’t happened since 1803.
They're a little early, thanks to climate change.
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America’s grid isn’t ready for a renewable future. A new federal rule could change that.
The regulation requires grid operators to develop plans to build out the transmission needed to deliver on Biden’s climate agenda.
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Grist acquires The Counter and launches food and agriculture vertical
Two new reporters will lead the organization's agriculture coverage.
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Can the harsh conditions of space breed more resistant crops for Earth?
To make crops resilient to climate change, scientists are exposing seeds to cosmic radiation, extreme temperatures, and low gravity.
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An early-life wildfire exposure sickened these monkeys for decades
Could the same be happening to us?
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Michigan wants fossil fuel companies to pay for climate change damages
Harms include severe weather, crop failures, and economic hits from lack of ice and snow.
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As sea levels rise, the Quinalt Nation moves to higher ground
The community on the coast of Washington state has a plan to establish a new village with low-impact development and green infrastructure.
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